Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-10-04
While Ebola was the dominant topic on Twitter on Saturday, a quirk of the stats pushed “Moon” to the most popular word because of this tweet:
This blood moon will be nearly the size of a super moon: http://t.co/9cnz0Ics73 pic.twitter.com/4FJ02ysai2
— CNN (@CNN) October 3, 2014
The use of the word “moon” twice pushed its counts higher than any other (non-stop) word:
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Had they only used the word moon once, ebola would have won (we’ll ignore the word “will”, which occasionally is a person’s name but not today, and #CashinIn isn’t a topic per se). So, we can say that Ebola was eclipsed by the moon…
Top Shows for the day:
| Category | Mentions | Show |
| Most Mentions During Hour | 5481 | Fox News: Cashin In |
| Most Mentions During Day | 13866 | Fox News: Cashin In |
Overall ratings by network
| Network | Tweet Count | Unique Tweeters | Reach | Male | Female |
| Fox News | 40994 | 17646 | 184517603 | 59 % | 41 % |
| CNN | 29981 | 21710 | 187910394 | 54 % | 46 % |
| MSNBC | 16345 | 7906 | 67142946 | 55 % | 45 % |
| HBO | 10503 | 7266 | 31853962 | 67 % | 33 % |
| Comedy Central | 2544 | 2220 | 7250380 | 51 % | 49 % |
| Al Jazeera | 1049 | 854 | 2084669 | 73 % | 27 % |
| HLN | 486 | 336 | 1336192 | 40 % | 60 % |
| CBS | 377 | 338 | 8301687 | 43 % | 57 % |
| ABC | 222 | 169 | 19883576 | 53 % | 47 % |
Most popular hastags
| Hashtag | Count |
| #cashinin | 9572 |
| #tcot | 5561 |
| #ebola | 3596 |
| #isis | 2503 |
| #blackfish | 2267 |
| #nerdland | 2210 |
| #lnyhbt | 2174 |
| #uppers | 1655 |
| #newark | 1578 |
| #uniteblue | 1272 |
Tag Cloud across all shows
| #1 #2a #bahrain #benghazi #biden #billoreilly #blackfish #breaking #bringbackourmarine #c2gthr #ca #cashinin #cavuto #ccot #cdc #cfkfreearturo #chicagoland #cnn #ebola #ebolaqanda #edshow #emptythetanks #ferguson #flipadistrict #foxnews #goodjobs #gop #hannity #hillary #hillaryclinton #hongkong #humanrights #inners #iran #irantalks #iraq #isis #islam #islamophobia #justice #kellyfile #kobane #lastweektonight #lego #libcrib #lnyhbt #louvre #maddow #marineheldinmexico #msnbc #mtp #ncpol #nerdland #newark #newday #news #nra #obama #obamacare #ohio #openingstatement #opkillingbay #p2 #parismotorshow #partsunknown #peterkassig #pjnet #prochoice #realtime #rebranding #redeye #rednationrising #republicanhypocrisy #scotus #seaworld #sisterpatriots #stephencolbert #syria #t #tcot #tdsbreakingnews #teaparty #tgdn #thisislife #tiot #tlot #tntweeters #tpp #truth #tweet4dolphins #tweet4taiji #twisters #txpolitics #uniteblue #uniteblue2014 #uppers #usa #voteblue2014 #walmart #wiunion |
Word Cloud across all shows
| africa against airport america american baby back ben big blood cdc co come country day dying ebola even first flight flights game getting go going good great hazmat help home hong isis islam just know kong last let like live love make man many medicaid medical moon muslims nearly need needs never new news next now obama one passenger people personnel please poor president race real really removed right say says see show sick size slogan stay stop suits super take texas texas’ think time tourism united unwanted us video vote want watch way white will women world worse yes |